April 2007 - Ladygarden? Ladytropicalrainforest more like

[Katy44]

CFK - I couldn't resist!

Me too - re sharing more. Hopefully the meets will help with that. I am x Greengirlforever for those of you who don't recognise my new name. I'm the oldie one (41) with a DS1 of 14 and a DS2 of 3 and a half. Have spent the last week going round primary schools because DS2's application has got to be in by next Thursday, even though he is not due to start school until next January! Luckily we are spoiled for choice around here with some lovely schools.

1B3 - thinking of you at this time. The father of my DS1 died 12 years ago, at home and I completely forgot his anniversary when DS2 was born (2 days before anniversary). Maybe it's something about the new life taking precedence and is the way nature means it to be. I know when I am pg I barely know what day of the week it is and I have already forgotten so many things.

Camping - DH is keen and took us all last summer. God no! I need ceramic and proper beds.... We'll probably end up going again though, cos' we bought all the stuff and I'm the only one that hates it. At least this summer I have the excuse of a newborn and maybe we can go for a cottage or something.

EllieK - Well done on the new man!! Aah, those honeymoon early days.....

Pesha - your late evening posts last night made me laugh and laugh. My DH also seems to have a selective brain when it comes to what to spend our money on - ie. it's ok to spend £450 on a defective motorbike but not to buy DS2 a new bed cos we "can't afford it". Also, remember this is the man who went on the African holiday in the autumn!!

Just wanted to say thinking of you 1B3 and as others have said its just a date, its what is in your heart that matters.

Elliek - Congrats on the new man, has he got brother? Right about now I feel like trading in my P (notice no D for darling). He just gets on my last nerve sometimes

Pesha - great that you got your scan. I hope it puts your mind at rest.

1b3 would like to echo everything every1 else has said only much better than i ever could. Please feel free to post here as much as you want. Or there is a miscarriage/bereavement topic you could post in if you felt uncomfortable posting here (not that you should). Am thinking of you.

MIAM your pic is lovely but you are nothing like i expected! Dont no what i expected really tho and i def dont mean that in a bad way. I think its like when you read a book you create an image of a character then you watch the film of it and its never quite right! May see if i can put some pics of us up later.

Ironing?!! Dont do ironing in this house, thats what the tumble drier is for! But then i am being incredible lazy slut at mo (as well as brazen hussy, definitely lowering the tone of mn!) and doing nothing more than what absolutely has to be done! feeling really washed out tho, really hoping its just iron levels bringing me down and not AND. have been depressed pretty much constantly to varying degrees since aged 13 until last year or so when i felt id finally managed to pull myself out of it and was back on top of things and everything is really going ok for me at the mo so no reason to be depressed anymore so mildly terrified at thought of PND but am (hopefully) now strong enough person to fight it and not sit around and wallow (how the hell do you spell wallow, wollow, wallough?!) in it as before. (Please dont relate that comment to anyone else who has or may have PND or depression, im not suggesting people sit and let it happen and can just be snapped out of it, it is specific to me and my attitude!)

Anyway - thanks for all wishes of luck etc with scan, have been feeling pretty positive about baby lately although is as someone said bit of a bugger having slight question mark hanging over it but only 2 weeks and hopefully we should get abit of clarification one way or the other.

Have forgotten everything else was going to say! Mind you imagine how huge our antenatal threads would be if everyone did remember everything they wanted to say!! Is prob just as well we all have sieve for brains!

afternoon to you all

1B3 - i just wanted to echo pretty much what other people have said. yr little girl has now had alot of us thinking of her too. xoxoxooxoxo

pesha - i think we have talked about depression b4 - there is another thread i am on which is quite good. i am just back frm MW appt - and i have to say she was fab with me. spent an hour talking over worries and really helped. i have been to the special AND/PND unit and have another appt in 2 weeks to make decision about meds. since i have done all this - i do feel alot beter and more in tune with when the thoughts and moods are going down a path that isnt good. at least this way i am in the system and if my pg hasnt been great - then hopefully my early days as a mum will be better. it isnt easy and like u - i have struggled on/ off with depression for years. it is only now that i have accepted that independant me cant do it on my own. i would really suggest talking it over with others {{{{HUGS}}}}} to anyone who is feeling down - for whatever reason.

anyhow - enough of that!!!!!!

have any of you managed to find somewhere is the Uk that stocks the co-sleeper bassinet??

Great idea MIAM! Didn't even occur to me to do it that way! Me a couple of weeks ago, though I am sure I have grown since!

wow maveta - u look so much like my friend aileen - seperated at birth!!!

how did you get yr pics up??

Am on photobucket trying to register, says pesha is taken but came up with suggested alternative - pesha bucket! Has it been reading this thread? How does it know??!!

I cant resist it!

I've got a photobucket account anyway so you just register www.photobucket.com and then upload your photos then once they are uploaded copy and paste the URL link it gives you.

Easy as pie.

I swear I so often get told I look like someone, must have a standard template face!

Afternoon all
Pesha I cant stop laughing at your posts, you have a fabulous sense of humour
1b3 thoughts and prayers are you.
Maveta and Mwbt you both look so young
and so well.

Am trying very unsucessfully to do my ironing because I have done none since christmas. Just cant seem to motivate myself these days, the mind keeps wandering.....

ok folks - techno phobe that i am - here goes nought........
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oops - the second one is papa bean and his bump at 24 weeks!

flumppootle - don't do ironing!!! DON'T IRON. Is this something that will happen when I am a Mum? I iron about 3 times a year and only when I really really can't get away with something wrinkly. I can't stand it. My mum actually bought me an ironing board because I just ironed on a towel on my dining room table.

SAY NO TO IRONING!

Aw, it's lovely to see everyone's photos! Love the photo of papa bean wo!! My dh also very lovingly caresses his 'bump' and worries his is bigger than mine!

i agree maveta - i just dont iron. only job interviews or v v v important work presentations / meetings. dp does the ironing that is needed. didnt mean to offend with the commnet re u lookig like my pal aileen - oops

just realised - meant to share other info?? linda & fraser (35 & 37),
me = irish, him = scottish. living in glasgow and first timers to this baby/parenting game!

Can someone please explain in thicko terms how to do a lilnk - I have tried so many times and it just doesnt work!!

h and her bump

Ha I did it all by my sel-elf!!! How clever am I!!!!

Ok so this is me, Heather, and my boy bump, oh and the xmas tree....

Have nearly abandoned the ironing. I do hate ironing but motherly guilt means that I cannot bring myself to send my dds to school in rumpled uniforms They end up looking like nothing on earth by the time that I pick them up but like to drop them off looking fairly presentable.
It will happen to you aswell

Loved the photo WO just very that everyone looks so glamorous.

Dont have any photos at the moment but details are:
Me 32, Dh 36, dd1 6, dd2 4, ds 2. Live in Wiltshire but moving back to sctoland in the spring/summer (both scottish)

am at work so not going to be able to do the photo thing as don't have any on the computer here to upload.

I was thinking over the last few weeks since most have had their scans whether it was worth doing a new stats thread with all the details together (real name (if want to), age, other kids, due date and sex of bean)?? I lose track of who everyone is! Til then I am Holly (never would have guessed that!), age 31, DH also 31, DS 19 months, due 16/17 April and sex unknown.

For those second timers on here, I've bought a book called "3 Shoes, 1 sock and no hairbrush" by Rebecca Abrams on how to manage having a second child. Am hoping it will enlight me rather than put the fear of god into me...

GMM - love the dress! You look very glam indeed, I agree, as does WO. Sorry MIAM, Can't see enough of you but your earrings look glam!

WO no offence taken in the slightest! Takes a lot more to offend me. Why? Is she mingin'? Should I be offended? What are you trying to say, huh, huh, HUH? It's my scabby jumper isn't it? I knew it didn't bring out my eyes...

got to dash to MW now... xx

Its a long top type thing, from new look, £20, bit of a bargin, as it looks nice over trousers and jeans.. and will hopefully get away with it post maternity!! How comes I'm only 24 weeks and seem to have a huge bump??? I swear if one more person asks me "how long have you got left?" then has that surprised look when I tell them over 3 months they will have to have surgery to remove the heel of my shoe from their eye!!

Flump, whereabouts in Scotland are you moving back to? Where did you hail from?

GMM am also the owner of a very large boy bump at 25 weeks.
I am from Edinburgh, dh is from glasgow and we are moving back to outskirts of Edinburgh. Where do you live?

Does any1 know how to kick start labour? Am 3 days overdue, booked in for an induction on wednesday but don't like the thought of it!!!!

LOL LOL maveta - actually aileen is very glam and is/was a very much sought after lady in the loving stakes . compliments to you.

GMM- u look lovely but then again - u looked very glam at our xmas meal (did those shoes ever get another outing?)

flump - no doubt u have said but when u moving back here and to where???

Uddingston, just off the M74 and M8, weeonion is in Dennistoun, we have another friend who is due at the end of Jan who lives in Hamilton and a few others... we are all on the bumps north of the border thread under pregnancy, you should pop in some time!! Liath lives in Edeinburgh I think?